hashicorp/nomad · error

deleting job from plugin: %v

Error message

deleting job from plugin: %v

What it means

During job deletion, cleaning up CSI plugins registered by the job (deleteJobFromPlugins) failed; the wrapped error propagates from plugin/alloc cleanup inside the delete transaction.

Source

Thrown at nomad/state/state_store.go:2086

		// Insert the eval
		if err := txn.Insert("evals", eval); err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("eval insert failed: %v", err)
		}
		if err := txn.Insert("index", &IndexEntry{"evals", index}); err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("index update failed: %v", err)
		}
	}

	// Delete allocs associated with the job
	if err := s.deleteAllocsForJobTxn(txn, index, namespace, job.ID); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	// Cleanup plugins registered by this job, before we delete the summary
	err = s.deleteJobFromPlugins(index, txn, job)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("deleting job from plugin: %v", err)
	}

	// Delete the job summary
	if _, err = txn.DeleteAll("job_summary", "id", namespace, jobID); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("deleting job summary failed: %v", err)
	}
	if err := txn.Insert("index", &IndexEntry{"job_summary", index}); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("index update failed: %v", err)
	}

	// Delete the job submission
	if err := s.deleteJobSubmission(job, txn); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("deleting job submission failed: %v", err)
	}

	// Delete any remaining job scaling policies
	if err := s.deleteJobScalingPolicies(index, job, txn); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("deleting job scaling policies failed: %v", err)

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Solutions

1. Retry the job deletion
2. Inspect server logs for the underlying plugin cleanup error
3. Verify CSI plugin state consistency if it persists

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at nomad/state/state_store.go:2086 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of hashicorp/nomad@482b49bf1a (2026-09-04). Data as JSON: /api/errors/732008b2e7bad446. Report an issue: GitHub.